Monday, January 09, 2017

Our President-elect Has The Maturity Of A Nine-Year Old

The big news of the day is actress Meryl Streep’s passionate
take down of Donald Trump at the Golden Globe Awards, specifically citing his
public mockery of a New York Times reporter with a physical disability who
dared to cross the president-elect’s path. Mature adult that he is, Trump
almost immediately started twittering about Streep, hurling personal insults at
her because, well, he’s Donald Trump. And Trump had the audacity to say it
didn’t happen and he would never mock a physically disabled person.

Of course, there is a very widely circulated video of Trump
mocking the physical disability of a New York Times reporter (see photo above).
One of Trump’s supporters popped up in a comment section trying to defend Trump
by wondering why anyone would take Streep seriously, as she is a liberal
talking to a liberal audience.

I imagine sitting at a bar enjoying a beverage with the
person who wrote that comment and what I would want to say in response. “If you
had a physical disability or a child or a spouse with one, and a man publically
mocked that disability, would it matter to you if he was a conservative or a
liberal, or would you just consider it demeaning, hateful and wrong?”